Tristan: it’s cool that people were finding planets back in the day with simple telescopes. pretty amazing

Sefiros: ie in regards to naming conventions of Jupiters moons

Sefiros: all the most recently disocvered objects in the 20th, and 21st centuries have less consistent naming standards

Tabris: Yeah I hate how they name shit with random strings of numbers and letters

Garrion: when we left off the group has followed a path around to a big endless pit…. Loryc has been exploring the manor….

Sefiros: well i was mostly talking about mixing mythologies and also naming them after people

Sefiros: the strings and numbers is more for catalog purposes

Sefiros: one you know what they stand for, you’d get it

Tabris: Ahh, I see

Sefiros: yeah its not just random numbers

Sefiros: its for classifications

Cedric: ( can Urso catch up ?)

Tabris: Yeah we hauled you along and used you as our mobile lighthouse

Garrion: urso is with them.. he was just the light holder

Urso: ( he leading, or we doing sneaky?)

Garrion: we’ll head away from Loryc for a bit and return the spotlight to the group in the knot

Tabris: Not really any sneaking

Garrion: repeat description for urso….

Sachi has connected.

Garrion: A rickety-looking wooden set of curved stairs, supported by creaking ropes above and a lattice of wooden boards below, passes like a bridge through the center of a circular shaft. No floor is visible below, and no ceiling above. An opening in the far wall beckons about 30 feet below the point where the stairs curve.

Sachi: Hihi~

Tabris: Osu~

Garrion: howdy.. just getting started

Garrion: btw, Urso.. last session you were all attacked by some sort of shadow creatures

Urso: hey

Urso: (ya, I heard)

Garrion: a little tougher than the houd

Zindal (aka Ladzin): Zindal still showed them what’s what though

Urso: “we continue forward then?”

Zindal (aka Ladzin) shrugs

Zindal (aka Ladzin): “Is there any other option?”

Urso continues forward slowly.

Sefiros: Hey Sachi

Melty hovers near Mina’s head.

Garrion: as you glance down in the pit you see no bottom within your light range.. however…..

Urso: “how Mayor get to his stuff in vault if he have to go thru all this stuff?”

Garrion: looking down you see a shadowed indention… looks like it could be another passage….

Zindal (aka Ladzin): “He probably has a map. Or memorized the route.”

Garrion: this is not at eye level so ignore the “vision” entering the hall

Garrion: Melty.. you just catch a glimpse of the second one coming down the other hall to your flank and behind the others.. you see it just as it moves in to grasp mina….. you try to get out a warning but just aren’t in time

Melty: Ooo, I learned something neat~

Melty: Well actually I didn’t

Melty: I don’t think these are vaporous

Garrion: no, insubstantial

Garrion: thaT IS GURPSVERSION OF INCORPOREAL

Mina: “Zindal, not now! Ack! What the fuck!”

Zindal (aka Ladzin): lol

Mina: “Behind us!”

Mina: do i need to put any mods to my parry or can i ever parry since its from behind?

Zindal (aka Ladzin): “I told you to watch for it!”

Melty: I bet they sense life, so distracting them with illusions probably won’t work ; ;

Shadow 1:
←Attacks Mina with a Touch
in the Groin
←Rolls 9 vs. Skill 8 (12 with a modifier of -4)

Melty: (But my game plan is to investigate this hall and if there’s no sign of a way into the area where the others are, to go back west and then south and then east again, toward the other shaft that I don’t know where it’s gonna connect to)

Melty: (shh!)

Melty: (But that I can reasonably assume might go back to that area)

Zindal (aka Ladzin) takes a step back to the edge of the shaft, trying to minimize the flanking advantage of the two shadows

Zindal (aka Ladzin): Staying readied to attack one if they try to touch me

Garrion: Zindal and Tristan edge side by side on the walkway

Urso: (heh, don’t ya think should be urso doing that ?)

Zindal (aka Ladzin): “Go for the hand as they try to grab you.”

Zindal (aka Ladzin): (lol well if you want to pick Tristan up and toss him behind you be my guest)

Tristan (Stan): “i’m going to avoid the hand as it tries to grab me”

Garrion: you all just stay grouped and wait?

Garrion: Melty… you proceed down one of the side tunnels…..

Garrion: you travel 2 yars and you see that the tunnel branced north and south but it seems like a dead end.. at least from this vantage point

Taragnor: all her pothead friends are pressuring her to go on a drug run. It’s her turn apaprentlyt.

Mina: 12 cats…..I’m a cat lady shakes head

Mina: I cant bring myself to haul em off to the animal shelter, since its a death sentence

Garrion: they go.. they still sweirl about you in a dizzying flight….. apparently not wishing to get sliced again… they edge closer and seem eager to feed on your life force.. cicling in for the kill like sharks

Mina: leave her alone T

Zindal (aka Ladzin) feints at one of them with his sword, seeing if it reacts

Tristan (Stan): (this is where it sucks being a one trick poney)

Mina: we dont nag you about whores and gambling :-p

Zindal (aka Ladzin): Will stay readied to stab one if it tries to grab me

Tristan (Stan): (same here for the ready vs attack)

Taragnor: hehe. well you would if I left midsession to do either :P

Mina: whatever

Garrion: ok, another round… you still standing ground… waiting for Melty?

Mina: she said earleir she’d have to go

Zindal (aka Ladzin): Well you have the ability to schedule your illegal vices around gaming time, apparently she doesn’t have that flexibility =P

Mina: so

Zindal (aka Ladzin): Anyway yeah I’m basically just standing here and kinda daring the shadows to try to attack me again while we wait for Melty to get back

Mina: yeah 2 dollar whores are ready anytime, anywhere :-p

Tristan (Stan): i have two dollars

Taragnor: Hey, gambling isn’t illegal.

Garrion: Melty moves down the tunnel…..

Zindal (aka Ladzin): Massage parlor whores are though, lol

Mina: it depends on location i suppose

Mina: for either

Zindal (aka Ladzin): Heh, the only place prostitution is legal is Nevada, outside of Vegas

Zindal (aka Ladzin): Sachi’s habit is legal in more places than yours =P

Garrion: the rest of you wait?

Garrion: then they go…..

Zindal (aka Ladzin): Yeah, bring it

Garrion: they circle in closer and closer….

Shadow 1: HIDDENROLL

←rolls Will and gets 6 vs. Skill (12 with a modifier of 0)

Shadow 1 SUCCEEDS by 6

Zindal (aka Ladzin) stays focused on his targets, waiting for the opportunity to strike

Taragnor: lol.

Shadow 1: HIDDENROLL

←rolls Will and gets 10 vs. Skill (12 with a modifier of 0)

Shadow 1 SUCCEEDS by 2

Tristan (Stan): (holding for the perfect op)

Garrion: They seem to sense your preparedness and wait as the cirlce around you….

Tristan (Stan): “where is that lighting bolt short stack?”

Zindal (aka Ladzin): “What’s wrong? Nervous?”

Garrion: (Maybe try something to rouse them to action.. act like you are not ready?

Zindal (aka Ladzin) seems perfectly calm… almost eager, even

Tristan (Stan): “I got to take a leak”

Zindal (aka Ladzin): Uh oh

Zindal (aka Ladzin): There’s trouble

Tristan (Stan): i turn undead

Mina: “You cunts again?”

Shadow 4:
←Attacks Mina with a Touch
in the Groin
←Rolls 9 vs. Skill 16 (12 with a modifier of 4)

Taragnor: I know the sunray thing is. I dunno if every burning missile gets it.

Garrion: it is just a normal shot with no spread

Melty: (“any” ranged burning attack that doesn’t fit into any of those categories

Melty: And Lightning is that

Garrion: well you may have a point.. the burn on an arrow is a followup

Garrion: so i guess it is.. by the RAW

Garrion: unless explained otherwise in magic.. since that was written after

Garrion: ok, melty is up

Melty: (Well, the rules difference is you can target the eyes or vitals with it to do more damage, and I’m pretty sure that shooting electricity into someone’s eyes or heart will hurt them more than average)

Garrion: there is answere on gurps forums

Melty: Anyway~ I’m gonna spend both my actions charging up a Lightning spell, cause I wanna fling one. But I can’t charge, move, and fling all in the same turn…

Melty: So I’ll do the last two next.

Garrion: Lightning is an attack that fits poorly within the GURPS damage model, as its penetration behavior doesn’t really resemble a burning attack, and it doesn’t have the other key trait of a tight beam burning attack (able to make called shots for gaps in armor, like a piercing or impaling attack). That said, it doesn’t act like a non-tight-beam attack either, and won’t set fires very well.

Taragnor: Also remember you can put up ot your magery in points into a missile.

Melty: Aww

Garrion: ok

Mina has received initiative.

Garrion: Mina.. lets see what she has.. reduce all daamge by 1d6-1 due to ST decrease

Zindal (aka Ladzin): Heh, well that’s not too bad

Taragnor: oh it’s just 1d6-1 less damage?

Melty: (You can charge a missle with up to your magery per action, actually)

Taragnor: yeah.

Taragnor: So you could put in 2x your magery with 2 actions

Taragnor: Which should be a pretty big bolt, depending on how much magery you got

Garrion: yeah, from her default.. he weapons are enters in flat daamge and not using the SW or TH values so she needs to manually alter

Zindal (aka Ladzin): Okay, well I only had 1 damage so I patch myself up

Melty: “You know, that’s a good question…”

Zindal (aka Ladzin): Since I’m assuming it heals a minimum of 1 anyway

Garrion: yep

Taragnor: Also don’t think you can cast another spell with the missile active, not sure though

Melty: (I can’t)

Tristan is disconnected.

Zindal (aka Ladzin): My arm is down to 7 HPs and overall I’m down to 12 HPs.

Zindal (aka Ladzin) goes back to idly stroking Melty’s hair if she’s still on his shoulder after he finishes bandaging himself

Garrion: Bandaging It takes one minute to apply pressure or a tourniquet to stop bleeding. This restores 1 HP.

Melty: (Melty would discharge it into a wall if Mina told her to though; they haven’t really had a chance to bond over their fey ancestry yet so right now she’s at the “smarmy and obsequious” stage of the relationship)

Garrion: After bandaging, the aid-giver may take extra time to apply a more elaborate dressing and treat the victim for shock. He must keep the victim warm, comfortable, calm, and still. After the time indicated on the First Aid Table, he may roll against First Aid skill. On a success, the medic rolls as indicated on the table to see how many HP the victim recovers – minimum 1 HP. A critical success restores the maximum possible HP! This roll includes the 1 HP for bandaging; thus, a roll of 1 HP restores no further HP. On a critical failure, the victim loses 2 HP instead of recovering any HP at all!

Zindal (aka Ladzin) doesn’t seem to be paying particular attention to Melty other than stroking her hair, almost like he’s doing it subconsciously

Garrion: ok, good job all

Melty: “Hey… Someone come touch my head… That felt kinda good…”

Garrion: had some good RP acting out character motives

Mina: “Don’t spoil it, Zindal.”

Zindal (aka Ladzin): “Hm?”

Garrion: had some action.. and you finally listened to melty

Zindal (aka Ladzin): lol yeah

Garrion: and found another path

Melty: Yay~

Tristan: maybe she will be the new leader?

Mina: (she landed on my shoulder, so i assumed you were next to us doing your creeping)

Zindal (aka Ladzin): Oh, heh, I missed the part where she moved from me to you

Zindal (aka Ladzin): Yeah I wouldn’t still be trying to pet her then

Garrion: let’s call it 4 CP for tonight

Melty: Aww~

Urso: each?

Garrion: yes.. always each

Zindal (aka Ladzin): Nice

Melty: Oooo

Tristan: nice

Zindal (aka Ladzin): Urso I recommend investing a point or two in those movement skills, lol

Melty: I can get some new stuff!

Tristan: time to get some acrobatics!

Urso: when can we spend these things? I got like 30 now I think

Zindal (aka Ladzin): lol damn

Zindal (aka Ladzin): You haven’t spent any since we started?

Taragnor: heh, time for weapon master

Zindal (aka Ladzin): lol seriously

Melty: Oooo

Taragnor: think he’s been saving for WM.

Melty: That would pump you up

Garrion: you can spend at any time if you can justify the increase

Tristan: weapon master, ray spell?

Taragnor: lol could you take WM (ray)?

Taragnor: That’d be pretty badass

Melty: omg can you do that shit?

Urso: I have, just none since we started this acting thing, last thign I did was spend 1 pt to get acting

Garrion: but you may only increase one step between sessions

Taragnor: Since they roll tons of dice

Taragnor: that’d be pretty uber

Garrion: so you can’t put like 20 points in one skill

Melty: There’s no way, I gotta check that

Zindal (aka Ladzin): lol wow

Zindal (aka Ladzin): Yeah that would be awesomely ridiculous if you could do that

Zindal (aka Ladzin): And I would totally consider making a GURPS Tabris with that

Melty: Ah, it says “muscle-powered”

Zindal (aka Ladzin): Aw, sadness

Melty: So I can’t do it with lasers :(

Urso: no, am thinking of getting weapon master, figure have been fighitng with an axe for a while now.

Garrion: well check your sheet with the total on the site… i have your total character CP on there

Melty: btw

Tristan: yeah, that would bu uber with your ST

Zindal (aka Ladzin): Hmm, up to 11 CP available…

Zindal (aka Ladzin): Yeah you totally need Weapon Master

Garrion: not counting the 4 you just got

Melty: I have yet to sit and finish everything with my new M&M character

Zindal (aka Ladzin): No the 11 is with the 4

Urso: sorry, only 26 unused, hehe

Melty: But the one power I solidly know for sure that I want for her monster kitsune form is I want her to be able to spit lasers

Garrion: ok, here is the “Official” answer from KROMM.. the line editor for GURPS

Taragnor: hehe.

Urso: btw, waht book are those wild card combo skills in? that online sheet thing doesn’t have them does it?

Garrion: 1. Burning attacks are never “tight-beam” unless the rules say so. David and I went throught the Basic Set and made sure to add “tight-beam” wherever it belonged. If you don’t see it, you can be reasonably certain that’s on purpose. 2. Electricity isn’t “tight-beam” as a general rule. Charged-particle beams might be, but that’s not the same thing. 3. If there’s enough electricity to damage material objects and kill people, you can rest assured that there’s a serious fire risk. A 10d fire attack and 10d electrical attack have the same odds of setting a fire. Realistically, the plasma arc of the electrical attack will ignite a lot of things that chemical flame won’t ignite. On the other hand, its physically smaller, so it cancels out in terms of setting fires in GURPS.

Taragnor: The power ups 7 article had the most wildcards that I know of

Taragnor: There’s some in the core rules, but not many

Melty: Like a video game boss just straight up shoot lasers out of her mouth

Garrion: yes PU 7 has them all to date

Zindal (aka Ladzin): I can attest to high energy electrical discharge setting things on fire